Did someone say Grimdark?!
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Foul Xenos scum! You will be purged from this galaxy!
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Wait, wrong universe, sorry.
Which NPCs would you most like to have preg content?
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Did someone say Grimdark?!
*pulls out Inquisitorial Rosette and summons a Death Watch retinue*
Foul Xenos scum! You will be purged from this galaxy!
...
Wait, wrong universe, sorry.
I feel like she can still be vibrant while fucking and bearing your children, but then I looked at the DCL images.
I really agree with these points and agree that TiTS handles these really well. I've always had a really big pregnancy fetish, so I really like that this is a part of the game. And having somewhere to go visit these kids is nice. I recently had the Water Princesses and going to visit them is a fun and cute break from the rest of the game. I'm really hoping that more of the kids will have interactions written for them because, personally, I find it a nice little break to go back to Tarkus and spend some time with my kids.
Another Npc I would like to have Preg content is sub Sera. Knowing Nonesuch it will eventually happen. Give or Take 5 years.
I would like as much pregnancy content as possible, but as for specific characters I feel need pregnant content ASAP, there's Nessa, Reaha, Yammi, the Pexiga, any Enessa, and Illaria. That fertility priestess should probably get in on it too, and Briget's bust says that she should have some in the future.
That's what I was getting at: children themselves serve very little purpose in a porn game. A ~hyperrealistic child-rearing simulator~ clearly isn't what people are clamoring for and the mere presence of kids cramps the style of the lewd stuff. So either they get almost entirely ignored as with TiTS where you're essentially dumping them off in a space orphanage until you feel like stopping by for a cute waifu scene involving them or they go the eroge route and write them in as part of an epilogue that allows for some cuteness without also necessarily making your character a deadbeat/absentee parent.
Both have obvious drawbacks and don't seem to clearly get at what, if anything, people actually want to see from this type of content. Seems to me that part of the reason that it feels off lies in the fact that people haven't quite zeroed in on what they truly want out of this.
Yeah, lots of people like the impregnation part as well as the whole idea of it as the climax of a waifu plotline - if that were all there is to it then there's absolutely nothing wrong with sticking it into an ending - but people seem to want the story to continue from there. The question is what they want, exactly. TiTS and its hilariously inelegant boarding school for wayward spawn is a way for children to not interfere with the adventure yet also leave room for them to have content but I'd think that, for impregnation content of the type people are yearning for to actually work, a game would need to be built to change or incorporate it as a way of moving on to the next stage of it. Trying to have kids without it changing anything is too much of an eating your cake and having it too situation.
Not a lot of games want to orient themselves around it, though, so the result tends to be this bizarre half-measure where people get the eroticism of knocking up/getting knocked up and then...eh?
Feels like everyone's clamoring for it hoping that someone eventually stumbles onto the winning formula that finally scratches this itch that some content is getting close to but nothing ever quite reaches.
Oh, I agree with most of that. The nursery is an inelegant solution because it's not altogether clear what players really want from pregnancy content, for all that they're constantly clamouring for it. Part of the problem is that nobody on the writing team/who contributes frequently is all that into it - they do it because they're asked, not because they build characters to support it.
If I was to make guesses, based on how preg content is usually framed in these games and what people ask for regarding it, I'd say these are the things players want from it, roughly in order of importance:
1. Proof of their character's fecundity, and knowledge their spiralling DNA helixes will persist. At the crux of the preggo fetish is the basic biological urge. It just feels good to procreate, lights the brain up in ways very little else does. You can't really expect most players to explain this, or discern that the consequences of it gameplay-wise are very difficult to deal with.
2. The general state of pregnancy. Widening hips, soft, milky boobs, the growing bulge, a swamp of hormones... If feels good and it looks good, in its idealised state at least. Stuff like NPCs rubbing the PC's bulge and/or updates of the NPC's advancement pander to this. We can also provide it through devices like the Egg Trainer. Unfortunately No. 1 comes swinging into play there, and on some level players don't feel satisfied by faux pregnancy.
3. Certain submissive/dominant tendencies. This unfortunately rates highly enough to make it to number 3. It's very noticeable when randomers ask for the ability to impregnate Sera, for instance, it's framed as a kind of final victory over her. On the flip side when I'm asked to do/look at PC-gets-knocked-up stuff there is very often an overpowering and increasing submissiveness element to it. It's extremely rare to see anything where the roles are flipped.
4. Arcs. Players want to have an impact on their favourite character's lives, and you can hardly do better in that department than have a brat by them. This is probably the toughest thing to cater for, and what makes writers who created characters without the express intention of germinating them throw stuff around the room when fans keep asking for it. But it's pretty obvious that players want the NPC to talk about it, play with it, have to work a lot harder in order to support it, not sleep because of it, spiral into post natal depression etc.
5. Cuteness. Look at the adorable hulking chitinous multi-tentacled abominations! Aren't you glad you weren't the one that potty trained them?
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Hopefully this convinces a few people to choose the D A R K P A T H with her.
Who's a good girl?
Who wants daddy's cummies?
Thaaaaat's right, you do....
*GA-Blortch!*
...Now lick me clean, sweetie...
Need. I. Say. More?
^.^
I mostly agree with all of your points Nonesuch, but I don't think the bold part is entirely right. As one of those who 'clamor' for pregnancy content, I'd totally love to dom an NPC into knocking me up or the inverse of submitting to an NPC using me as a fuckpole to make babies with. Hell I'd say part of the reason it isn't asked for as much is because scenes like that are already in the game in bulk; like whenever a male PC is raped by a female NPC, or a female PC rapes a male NPC. Hell you've written content that falls into this, Able gets topped by female PC's, all that's missing is the ability for him to knock-up the PC.
The issue is that all the scenes that flip the usual dom/sub roles rarely actually lead to any pregnancy. An easy way to fix this is to increase the number of random monsters that can knock-up/be knocked-up, since random monsters are much simpler to write pregnancy content for as opposed to fully fleshed out NPCs.
But with randomn monster also having option to knock up PC/been knock up-able by PC will add element of tracking them and later possible some interactions that PC can have later. So named onr npc or generic monter it's still near the same work needed with generic monsters ave few less things that req. writer attention.
Not really, just look at the raskvel pregnancy. The individual raskvel isn't tracked, just a flag that determines if you knocked one of them up or not, and then five days after the event, a scene can trigger where you see the birth, and it's the same every time. After that you never see that raskvel again. It's even easier when the PC is knocked up, as the male never needs to be mentioned again. For example, the sydian pregnancy. Both are relatively barebones in content, but demonstrate that it is much easier to write pregnancies for generic characters rather than named NPCs. The only things that are absolutely necessary are the fertility check for existing vaginal scenes, and a birthing scene.
Well I haven't given Erra my proper attention yet but this image has boosted her to the top of my to do list.
As for this pregnancy nonsense; I prefer the cumflation method of creating the pregnant look. Emmy is a particularly favorite of mine for this very reason.
Yup yup, except for the damned ant people Myrellion would be freakin awesome. But once I decimate their cultural differences by forcing them ALL to become Orange Formix, My world will be a paradise again.
I believe he was trying to summon laughter as he's making a joke through comedic exaggeration
And there are definite links between many of them that those who're actually writing characters don't want to make knowing full well what's going on in some people's minds.
For a good chunk the whole ridiculously sized ding dongs and gallons of jussum thing has an inevitable end in the nursery because the whole thing was all a single arc of an idealized phallus-worshipping male virility fantasy where the pregnancy is nothing but verification of just how much of a ~stud~ their character, and by extension they themselves, are. And to stay in line with this angle there's definitely a desire for pregnancy to be a submissive act and impregnating a dominant one. It's not hard to see why writers who weren't going for that themselves would have little to no interest or even animosity towards the idea of writing content for their character that's nothing but overlong stroking of someone else's 2 foot horse-shaped egoboner. Alternatively as you mentioned using it as some form of ultimate comeuppance against a character they don't like/believe to be too full of themselves and so should be full of them. This preggo content is going to fall short simply because, even knowing what's desired, there's little likelihood of it being written that way.
On the flip side of that the fecundity fantasy, focusing on the pregnancy happening to the player is more implemented here (in part because the desire behind the content isn't a derailment from things writers have planned - if something like this is in the game then it was written that way from the get-go - and the PC is a blank slate so arcs aren't being interfered with), and with different dominant/submissive/not-so-fetishy flavors, even, but those fall short too because the end of it necessarily breaks the fantasy. The PC has to be able to go back to the status quo/act like it never happened to continue the adventure, after all. Catering fully to that would mean either a good/bad end that focuses on mommyhood, as a broodmother slut or permanent sub/dom to their baby daddy or even totally vanilla parent, or some elaborate branching path where the kid/pregnancy/pregnancies are more central. No one's going to get that elaborate even if the basics of the fetish are more agreeable to the writers.
The last major one is arcs, which are at play in both of those but here we're talking people who like what the characters are and want their relationship with the PC to be more central to it. Pregnancy there is more about becoming more intimate with them. But that ends up stepping on toes again even if writers don't find the desire as distasteful. Everyone's got their ideas on where they want their characters to end up and it's not necessarily catering to a player's intense desire to see lots and lots of saccharine waifu scenes. This one suffers the most from what-the-heck-do-you-even-want syndrome since players get attached to the characters and want them to be the PC's snuggleslave but also want to see what stories and adventures they're going to have on their own. Trying to write kids in that both do and don't matter to the characters is stretching in different directions and results in the oddest of the half-measures.
Yes this. I'm sorry I haven't read the myrellion planetary thread. I didn't want other people's head-cannon for my favorite planet to fuck with mine.
Sure, I can agree with most of this. I also concur with the underlying theme that writers are sort of expected to give out whatever every single individual has in their "But muh fetish!" head-cannon insanity. I'm not excluded from this, I really like the naga body, and want more content but am to lazy (or maybe something else *crosses fingers*) to do it myself. I do want to say that QotD sort of bypasses the things I've seen you mention. It SORT of fits into the third category. But this one seems to bypass all or most of the negative appearing pitfalls you present. Even Mistybirb approves of QotD last I knew.
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I myself will admit that I fall on the point 2 and 4 of Nonesuch's list although I flatly disagree with most of the opinions or commentary he throws into it at least in regards to myself, however I can admit that many others do qualify so I cant really argue that much about it either.
Basically I really like the shape and lactation and so on from 2, but inflation or faux preg stuff works well for me there like Ceria or Emmy or even Saendra's scenes.
What drives me for the specific pregnancy content is the more personal and intimate side of 4 and not the way Nonesuch puts it either. For me when it comes to none sexual reasons why I might want to knock a character up is I see is as an extension of the relationship with that character. Te ever so constant problem is however as Nonesuch says and that most characters aren't written for it and it'd actually hurt their story to make it possible.
There is a time and place for almost all fetishes, its just that preggo content is trickier in that regard than many
Basically I really like the shape and lactation and so on from 2, but inflation or faux preg stuff works well for me there like Ceria or Emmy or even Saendra's scenes.
What drives me for the specific pregnancy content is the more personal and intimate side of 4 and not the way Nonesuch puts it either. For me when it comes to none sexual reasons why I might want to knock a character up is I see is as an extension of the relationship with that character. Te ever so constant problem is however as Nonesuch says and that most characters aren't written for it and it'd actually hurt their story to make it possible.
There is a time and place for almost all fetishes, its just that preggo content is trickier in that regard than many
Yep, this is fair. MGQ's success was built upon this kind of thing, and many of TiTS/CoC's most popular mobs are based off of it. Protein hunters are still a rarer framework, but it's submissive/dominant tendencies regardless really.
(Edit: Needed to word a bit better.)
Heh. Funny.
Its probably not gonna happen. I dont think Reaha is a character that should get pregnant. Plus Savin would most likely not want to work on it. He dislikes writing preg content and I think some of his other characters have a better chance for it. (Like maybe Extremely LATE GAME stuff for the Puppy Slut Trio ((Quad if Erra is counted but thats Hugs department)) that gets a minuscule of preg content. But thats would be close from 4 years to never)
I mean he does it from time to time, but I dont think Reaha would get a Preg expansion. Thats a bet I'm comfortable taking.
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She's not infertile. It's a species thing. If anything, there were talks of considering Ellie if PC is leithan.
Too bad I commissioned preg content for both Ellie and Haley from Wsan, and would have done it for Aina too if it weren't for Gardeford wanting to do it.
Both of them have disappeared though.
Both of them have disappeared though.
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